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SILVIA COLASANTI (IT) Silvia Colasanti graduated in piano with Valentino Di Bella and in composition with Luciano Pelosi and Gian Paolo Chiti at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia of Rome, where she also studied music history and aesthetics with Claudio Annibaldi. She then attended master class with Fabio Vacchi and was selected for the atelier de composition held by Wolfgang Rihm and Pascal Dusapin at the Centre Acanthes (Metz, France). She attended (obtaining a diploma with merit) an advanced composition course held by Azio Corghi at Accademia Musicale Chigiana. She also got a diploma for a master course in composition, held by Azio Corghi, at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She received from the President de la Republique the "Goffredo Petrassi" scholarship as the best graduated. She has received various awards at national and international competitions, including the Zeitklang – Musikfabrik NÖ – Wien, the Lopes-Graça – Lisbon, the ICOMS - Turin, the “Valentino Bucchi”- Rome, the “Egidio Carella”, the “Città di Varese” and the Settimane Musicali of Stresa. The Adkins Chiti: Women in Music Foundation (Rome) has commissioned her to write a piece of sacred music for the Vatican City. Radio Rai has also selected Silvia Colasanti to be Italy’s representative at the International Rostrum of Composers. Recently the Civitella Ranieri Foundation of New York awarded her a grant to support her composing activity. Her works have been played at various festivals, including the Biennale Musica (Venice), Settembre Musica (Turin), Kuhmon Kamarimusiikki (Kuhmo, Finland), Festival Berio (Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome), Sagra Musicale Umbra (Perugia), Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (Cascais, Portogallo), Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena), Orchestra National de Belgique - Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Orchestra della Toscana (Teatro Verdi – Florence), Orchestra del Lazio (Parco della Musica – Rome), Unione Musicale (Turin), Accademia Filarmonica Romana (Rome), Fondazione Cini (Venice), Progetto Musica (Rome), Antidogma Musica (Turin), Compositori a confronto (Reggio Emilia), Teatro Parenti (Milano), Great Hall (Podgorica), Università “Tor Vergata”(Rome), Palazzo Altemps (Rome), Galleria Comunale d’arte moderna e contemporanea (Rome), Palazzo della Cancelleria (Rome), Estate Musicale (Portogruaro). Silvia Colasanti’s works are published by Casa Ricordi – Universal Music Publishing S.r.l. (Milan). Music activities 2008: 21st October 2008 To muddy death (Ophelia), for quintet (fl, cl, vl, cello,piano); Traiettorie - Parma; Ex Novo Ensemble. 2nd November 2008 Fuochi in autunno, for ensemble ; Suoni Riflessi - Firenze; Nuovo Contrappunto Ensemble, cond. Mario Ancillotti. 7th December 2008 To muddy death (Ophelia), for quintet (fl, cl, vl, cello, piano); Ex Novo Festival - Venezia; Ex Novo Ensemble. 7th and 9th December 2008 Just a Street Back love affair, from J.S.Bach, for string orchestra; Conservatorio 'G. Verdi' - Torino; Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, cond. Sergio Lamberto. 23th December 2008/19th January 2009 L'angelo del Liponard, text by Mario Tobino; for reciting voice, fl. , ob. , cello, percussions; Fucecchio, Lucca; Sandro Lombardi, Volumina Ensemble. 19th February 2009 Sentieri di sangue (Ascoltando Friedensreich Hundertwasser), for string orchestra; Accademia Filarmonica Romana - Teatro Olimpico - Roma; Virtuosi italiani, cond. Massimo Quarta. www.silviacolasanti.it |
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